The Last Sundowner (C J Dennis Poems)
He sat upon a fallen log And heaved a long, deep sigh.His gnarled hand fondling his old dog As his ...
He sat upon a fallen log And heaved a long, deep sigh.His gnarled hand fondling his old dog As his ...
First I knowed Casey him an' me was young,An' many a yard we h'isted, an' many a stave we sungIn ...
Oh, I've ridden 'em rough an' I've ridden 'em kind, Brumbies and prads well-bred.Of every colour and every kind - ...
Gusty sheets o' rain a-fallin';Yellow slickers our attire;Wet, bedraggled longhorns bawlin';Cook a-cussin' at the fire.Grub all water-soaked and soggy;Foreman's temper ...
O gallus wind o' Embro tounYe breenge through ilka space.I turn a corner - blaw me doun!Ye're there, ye're at ...
Air — "Cawdor Fair."Bonnie ran the burnie doon,Wand'rin' and windin';Sweetly sang the birds aboon,Care never mindin'.The gentle simmer windWas their ...
When I was up the country in the rough and early days, I used to work along ov Jimmy Nowlett's ...
The King has called for priest and cup, The King has taken spur and blade To dub True Thomas a ...
What conversazzhyonies wuz I really did not know, For that, you must remember, wuz a powerful spell ago; The camp ...
The mountain brook sung lonesomelike, and loitered on its way Ez if it waited for a child to jine it ...
AS 1 I cam by Crochallan, I cannilie keekit ben; Rattlin', roarin' Willie Was sittin at yon boord-en'; Sittin at ...
FY, let us a' to Kirkcudbright, For there will be bickerin' there; For Murray's light horse are to muster, And ...
O THOU! whatever title suit thee- Auld Hornie, Satan, Nick, or Clootie, Wha in yon cavern grim an' sootie, Clos'd ...
THE SUN had clos'd the winter day, The curless quat their roarin play, And hunger'd maukin taen her way, To ...
WHEN chapman billies leave the street, And drouthy neibors, neibors, meet; As market days are wearing late, And folk begin ...
A Tale "Of Brownyis and of Bogilis full is this Buke." -Gawin Douglas. When chapman billies leave the street, And ...
UPON 1 a simmer Sunday morn When Nature's face is fair, I walked forth to view the corn, An' snuff ...
In Mike Maloney's Nugget bar the hooch was flowin' free, An' One-eyed Mike was shakin' dice wi' Montreal Maree, An ...
You may talk o' your lutes and your dulcimers fine, Your harps and your tabors and cymbals and a', But ...
Ma tried to wash her garden slacks but couldn't get 'em clean And so she thought she'd soak 'em in ...
You've heard of Belching Billy, likewise known as Windy Bill, As punk a chunk of Yukon scum as ever robbed ...
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